Bastard 2025 brought international and Norwegian performance together with conversations, shared meals, walks, parties and workshops across Rosendal Teater and Trondheim.
The edition continued the festival’s move away from a conventional showcase model towards a more porous festival ecology: one in which access, hosting, artistic risk, local partnerships and the social life around the work are treated as part of the artistic proposition.
The programme included work by artists and collectives from Norway and abroad, alongside Bastard Brunches, a closing collaboration with HEIM festival, What is the good life?, and access formats including sign-language interpretation and relaxed approaches.
Credits
- Presented by
- Rosendal Teater
- Curators
- Alexander Graham Roberts, Chiara Bersani, Giulia Traversi, Christophe Meierhans, Nicolai Allessandro Mancilla Amador, Maiken Ustad Lian, Ferdinand Nordskag, Marit Bringedal Anti, Tonje Wik Olaussen, Guro Hustad Stugu and Klimakultur
- Artists / artistic collaborators
- Back to Back Theatre with Ingerid Elise Trætteberg; Alice Ripoll / Cia REC; Anne Lise Le Gac, Anat Bosak and Leonard Leyens; DOM-; El Conde de Torrefiel; Findlay//Sandsmark; De Utvalgte; Christophe Meierhans; Heidi Rustgaard and Hanna Gillgren / H2Dance; Yewande YoYo Odunubi; Rohan Ayinde; Rambling Women (Kari Harneshaug, Emilie Storaas and Maria Norseth Garli); Hiltinho, Tony, Romulo and Alan; Stine Bogsveen; GUSTAV1000; HEIM Festival; Klimakultur.
- Selected works / events
- The Democratic Set; aCORdo; DOPA - The extended CRACK; Darkness Picnic; Cuerpos Celestes; broken (iteration III); Homage au pair; What is the good life?; Bastard Brunches; Protest Party; Rambling Women; opening and closing parties.
- Dates
- 17-20 September 2025
- Location
- Rosendal Teater and partner sites in Trondheim
Rosendal Teater / Bastard 2025 · Planting a festival from the margins